I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
E. B. WHITEThe whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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